In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

The planning of the operating rooms (ORs) is a difficult process due to the different
stakeholders involved. The real complexity, however, results from various sources of …

Scheduling elective surgeries is a complicated task due to the coupled effects of multiple
sources of uncertainty and the impact of the proposed schedule on the downstream units. In …

The aim of the Master Surgery Scheduling Problem (MSSP) is to schedule the medical
specialties to the different operating rooms available, such that surgeries may be performed …

Abstract Operating Rooms (ORs) are a critical resource in hospitals. Managing ORs
efficiently is a difficult task for hospital managers, as patients' surgery durations have high …

In a master surgery scheduling (MSS) problem, a hospital's operating room (OR) capacity is
assigned to different medical specialties. This task is critical since the risk of assigning too …

In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

This paper considers an integrated operating room (OR) planning and advanced scheduling
problem in a surgery department comprising several specialties that share a fixed number of …

General hospitals across the world are becoming larger (ie, admitting more patients each
year) and more complex (ie, offering a wider range of services to patients with more diverse …

Some international organizations have called for greener healthcare in the post-pandemic
era. Telemedicine has made an important contribution to achieving the goal of green …